http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: "Calls to restrict cycling on Portobello promenade" en Tue, 19 May 2026 17:07:28 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17944&page=4#post-335105 Thu, 30 Jul 2020 10:52:17 +0000 I were right about that saddle 335105@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@wingpig</p> <p>Clearly you've never been to our house. Our aim is to breed a dust mite the size of a land crab. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17944&page=4#post-335102 Thu, 30 Jul 2020 10:41:52 +0000 wingpig 335102@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@iwrats Did you ever perform a test in a dusty or misty atmosphere, with enough scattering of the beam to allow it to be seen? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17944&page=4#post-335100 Thu, 30 Jul 2020 10:39:16 +0000 neddie 335100@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Our neighbour's big shaggy dog is absolutely petrified of cats.</p> <p>You can see its pace quicken passing our front garden, cat or no cat present. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17944&page=4#post-335097 Thu, 30 Jul 2020 10:32:50 +0000 I were right about that saddle 335097@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@Arellcat</p> <p>I never got the impression The King disapproved of anything as such. Curiosity and bafflement abounded. There was also joy in the oddest things. He would return from miles away if he got wind of the washing being hung out.</p> <p>The oddest thing he ever did was during laser play. Cats as you know can be driven wild by laser pointers. He slammed one paw down on the dot only to have the dot resurface. Slams paw two on top of paw one and of course the dot appears there too. Cat turns and <em>looks</em> at me judgmentally. I do not know what the judgement was. That the game was crooked and so was I? I do not know. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17944&page=4#post-335092 Thu, 30 Jul 2020 10:23:22 +0000 Stickman 335092@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="https://theoatmeal.com/comics/dog_paradox" rel="nofollow">https://theoatmeal.com/comics/dog_paradox</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17944&page=4#post-335091 Thu, 30 Jul 2020 10:20:48 +0000 Arellcat 335091@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><code><strong>Dog:</strong> wags tail furiously, tears up and down while shouting, full of joy!<br /> <strong>Cat:</strong> sits and stares disapprovingly, one eyebrow raised to emphasise the situation.</code> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17944&page=4#post-335090 Thu, 30 Jul 2020 10:14:57 +0000 fimm 335090@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/joke-cat-vs-dog----war-of_n_1534447?guccounter=1&amp;guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&amp;guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAIuDWFuvXxnHAoJdk7Np8vTl0MIek-DcajR0fuZVQu-feA9SC9tZM7EvbQhXnDX9MRLd99t19KVlCeVJTzx_sAK0tYcUg5BWfLLiMwmntU0uCyZgoXlZzE8R2m7Y53mqolgbLfsbRTFqna49qOE7BRAuQbcNPiZacmgpkmIE99iw">The difference between dogs and cats</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17944&page=4#post-335048 Wed, 29 Jul 2020 20:36:43 +0000 minus six 335048@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>I am keen to have your thoughts on cats</em></p> <p>they have a kirlian psychic vision, always know if you've taken psychedelics and waste no time in making you aware that they are decidedly unimpressed by it </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17944&page=4#post-335046 Wed, 29 Jul 2020 20:14:02 +0000 crowriver 335046@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"Hecate was the Greek goddess of boundaries, the underworld &amp; later of witchcraft. Hecate was represented as three-formed or triple-bodied. The last known Cult which worshipped Hecate was in 1929. It regularly practiced dog sacrifice."</p> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/MrEwanMorrison/status/1288552703627599873" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/MrEwanMorrison/status/1288552703627599873</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17944&page=4#post-335039 Wed, 29 Jul 2020 19:09:52 +0000 unhurt 335039@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Um. No classist stereotypes there at all. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17944&page=4#post-335037 Wed, 29 Jul 2020 18:59:47 +0000 crowriver 335037@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"anecdata on dogs ownership contradicts a statistic"</p> <p>A STATISTIC, you say? </p> <p>Have those clipboard wielding data manipulators ever strayed into the environs of Montgomery Street Park? I daresay they have not.</p> <p>Perhaps they still cling to a fondly remembered, nostalgic image of stout Tory matrons, ruddy complexions swaddled in floral headscarves, marching their green wellies along quiet Home Counties lanes, docile golden retrievers padding amiably behind them. </p> <p>Whereas the reality on the windswept streets of Embra might be 'roid raging fitness instructors in tracksuits and designer trainers, struggling to control a couple of staffy / pit bull cross-breeds at the edge of the kiddies' play area. But no need to worry, they're "just being friendly". Further along the park path, an itinerant freelance dog service worker is "looking after" an assortment of hounds while their owners toil in nearby tattoo parlours and nail bars. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17944&page=4#post-335024 Wed, 29 Jul 2020 18:28:21 +0000 unhurt 335024@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Wait, how did that stop the dog eating the table? Did he send <a href="https://youtu.be/Hzlt7IbTp6M?t=116">the robot to intercept it</a>? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17944&page=4#post-335021 Wed, 29 Jul 2020 18:22:31 +0000 wingpig 335021@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>A former colleague bought a phone-operated remote spy robot to stop his dog eating the kitchen table legs back in the house whilst he was at work. I think it still had a walker to walk it a few days a week as well. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17944&page=4#post-335017 Wed, 29 Jul 2020 18:10:29 +0000 Greenroofer 335017@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Not a huge dog enthusiast, I must confess, but to @bax's comment above, one of my favourite Larson cartoons was of one dog saying to another as their dinner was spooned out of the tin "Oh wow, it's dog food AGAIN!". One does have to admire their <em>enthusiasm</em> for things. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17944&page=4#post-335016 Wed, 29 Jul 2020 18:09:46 +0000 I were right about that saddle 335016@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@bax</p> <p>I am keen to have your thoughts on cats. I found it impossible not to love The King despite him basically swinging between ketamine coma and PCP murder spree. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17944&page=4#post-335012 Wed, 29 Jul 2020 17:58:42 +0000 unhurt 335012@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@gembo I think socially distanced handovers at bottom of driveway / stair were presumably possible. @sheeptoucher walked someone's dog for them when they were in self-isolation - though there was no petting as "a dog is a SURFACE". </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17944&page=4#post-335011 Wed, 29 Jul 2020 17:55:44 +0000 unhurt 335011@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@bax exactly. A general joy in Being. Though I'm pretty fond of tired, grumpy old dogs that would like to sleep more thanks. </p> <p>@crowriver - I was just pointing out that your anecdata on dogs ownership contradicts a statistic in an article that you linked to. But you both say there are no more dogs / more dogs isn't the problem / but then that you think actually maybe there are more... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17944&page=4#post-335010 Wed, 29 Jul 2020 17:49:28 +0000 crowriver 335010@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@bax, alas only full strength black tea to hand at the moment (no milk or sugar thanks). Perhaps some lingering psychological after effect of lockdown stirs these colourful word strings from their slumber... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17944&page=4#post-335009 Wed, 29 Jul 2020 17:46:38 +0000 gembo 335009@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I know paid dog walkers that only walk one or two at a time</p> <p>They have been out of action up the Hunters Bog until very recently</p> <p>I have also spotted liveried vans in S Lanark’s and W Lothian who appear to have continued to operate all through lockdown - Hazel’s hounds and Marion’s Mutts</p> <p>I have however also seen the walker near St marks Park with 6 or more dogs - used to be a path that was not paved that was favoured but think it did then get paved. Sad to say that walker was a bit of a nusiance </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17944&page=4#post-335008 Wed, 29 Jul 2020 17:45:59 +0000 minus six 335008@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>you've cracked open the courvoisier, haven't you @crowriver</p> <p>so soon in the evening </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17944&page=4#post-335005 Wed, 29 Jul 2020 17:40:05 +0000 crowriver 335005@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"paid-dog-walkers"</p> <p>Indeed, the scourge of the "shared use" path network! Especially the Restalrig path* where the aforementioned freelance service industry operatives can be witnessed with up to a dozen fidos attached to multi-headed hydra leads, taking up the entire width of the path so that nary another human bean may pass by thereof, let alone a velocipede.</p> <p>Such is the extent of service industry quasi-privatisation of public rights of way in recent years, that I must confess, I prefer to take my chances among the thronging furious drivers of horseless carriages on Ye Olde Londone Roade, rather than happen upon such a vision of Hell on Earth. (Perchance I may exaggerate somewhat, but I pray dear reader, indulge an old forum poster's flight of fancy).</p> <p>* - Doubtless referred to in other social circles as "Dog Walker's Pend". </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17944&page=4#post-335004 Wed, 29 Jul 2020 17:28:58 +0000 neddie 335004@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><blockquote>there appear to be more dogs than when I moved to the area a couple of decades ago</blockquote></p> <p>Combined with the fact there are now paid-dog-walkers, enabling people to keep dogs who wouldn't normally be able to.</p> <p>E.g. Working couples out at work all day would not normally have been able to leave an unattended dog at home all day. Now you can get someone to do all the tiresome stuff for you... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17944&page=4#post-335002 Wed, 29 Jul 2020 17:11:22 +0000 gembo 335002@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@bax my niece’s Labrador (looked after by my sister and my mum) has been wagging that fecking tail hard for 12 years. Kind of going downhill now. Will also eat anything. My old boy used to pretend he hated her and not let her in the house but secretly loved her except that time she knocked him over (he was six foot three).</p> <p>When we lived in Thistle Street we had a key for the Queen Street Gardens we chose the particular garden as it said No Dog owners could apply. We foolishly thought that meant it was the garden without dogs when in fact it was the garden that had reached the max number of dogs. So you did have to watch where you sat. THere was a tiny kiddies play park fenced off but it was Shan. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17944&page=4#post-334993 Wed, 29 Jul 2020 16:39:04 +0000 crowriver 334993@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@acsimpson, "Your anecdata seems to conflict with a suggestion that more people are driving to walk their dogs (also anecdata)?"</p> <p>No, this other anecdata supports my anecdatal findings: i.e. more dogs in flats leads to more dog eggs in city parks; <em>and</em> more drives to take fido for a walk on the beach, prom, farmer's fields, Pentlands, etc. For the same reason: "Where am I going to "exercise" fido around here?" </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17944&page=4#post-334991 Wed, 29 Jul 2020 16:34:13 +0000 minus six 334991@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>the thing that impresses me about dogs is their enduring ability to celebrate just being a dog.</p> <p>its like they wake up each morning and cannot quite believe their good fortune continues.</p> <p>"i'm a dog!" "i'm still a dog!"</p> <p>they are happy to regard us as pack leader out of convenience but on the quiet they feel quite sorry for us, and regard us as being a wee bit retarded overall.</p> <p>we can't run on all fours, have no tail to wag and lack a keen olfactory sensibility.</p> <p>never had one around the house personally, but thinking about it. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17944&page=4#post-334988 Wed, 29 Jul 2020 16:19:16 +0000 acsimpson 334988@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Your anecdata seems to conflict with a suggestion that more people are driving to walk their dogs (also anecdata)? However I suspect that the later may just be because drivers are generally less responsible for where they abandon their vehicles and so it appears that there are more of them. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17944&page=4#post-334986 Wed, 29 Jul 2020 16:07:55 +0000 crowriver 334986@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@unhurt, "This doesn't suggest increasing numbers of dogs."</p> <p>It's the existing population of dogs, especially those in urban built-up areas, that is the problem. Or rather, I should say, the behaviour of a sizeable minority of dog owners in such areas.</p> <p>My anecdata tells me that, at least in the Easter Road/Hillside areas, there appear to be more dogs than when I moved to the area a couple of decades ago. There may be a correlation here with the phenomenon noted in that link - "smaller breeds of dogs have become more popular." </p> <p>Live in a tiny flat? Can't keep a big dog, impractical (though some do it seems). How about a small dog? No problem, hardly any more bother than a cat. Except for the walks for "exercise". Where is fido going to do that "exercise"? On the street, among the parked cars? Maybe. In the back green? Hm, better not, the neighbours might see. Where then? The park, of course! But a sign says "NO DOGS". How unfair, the "clowncil" are waging a war against otherwise law abiding dog owners! Those busybodies really shouldn't interfere with my fido's right to roam! Oh well, just slip in after dark, nobody will notice until tomorrow when the evidence of the "exercise" sits resplendent on the grass or footpath... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17944&page=3#post-334981 Wed, 29 Jul 2020 15:37:45 +0000 Rob 334981@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Actual conversation I've had in the park:</p> <p>Partner: "shall we sit on the grass?"<br /> Me: "on the dog toilet?"<br /> Partner: ".... ok, good point"</p> <p>She also used to purchase "sneeze bread", until she heard me refer to it as that. I'm a nightmare to live with. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17944&page=3#post-334980 Wed, 29 Jul 2020 15:31:58 +0000 neddie 334980@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Anyone with children will tell you that dog dirt in the back green, parks, grassy fields, on pavements, etc. is an absolute nightmare.</p> <p>It is almost guaranteed the child will stand in it at some point, then traipse the whole lot through and all over the house. And you will have no clue where it got smeared.</p> <p>And no, it isn't the responsiblity of the adult, nor child, to check shoes or take off shoes before entering your own house. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17944&page=3#post-334975 Wed, 29 Jul 2020 14:42:34 +0000 gembo 334975@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@wingpig dogs on vegetarian diets lose their spirit/soul.? </p>